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141 " I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time. "
― Thomas Jefferson
142 " Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. "
― Thomas Jefferson , Letters of Thomas Jefferson
143 " Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. "
144 " Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions. "
145 " New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. "
146 " An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes. "
147 " He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time. "
148 " Enlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. "
149 " All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. "
150 " The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. "
151 " I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. "
152 " Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. "
153 " I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. "
154 " I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris]. "
155 " The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. "
156 " War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. "
157 " There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. "
158 " Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. "
159 " In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "
160 " We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
― Thomas Jefferson , The Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution with Bill of Rights and all Amendments (Annotated)